Please join us for a live conversation on Zoom! 10th of June at 11AM Pacific, 2PM Eastern and 7PM UK

The indigenous people around the world are at a higher risk from coronavirus (COVID-19). Many Indigenous communities already experience poor access to healthcare and face a lack of access to essentials like clean water, sanitation, and other key preventive measures. Medical facilities are difficult to get to and those that exist often lack the staff and funding to tend to the health challenges of a pandemic and everyday care.In this live conversation, led by TreeSisters Founder Clare Dubois, we will talk with representatives from both North American and South American Indigenous tribes to discuss the challenges they face and what actions we can take to help. This will be an interactive call so please bring your questions forward for our Q&A session at the end of the call.The guests will include:

Jo Overton a co-founder of Protect Native Elders and a proud tribal member of the Sicangu Lakota (Rosebud Sioux) people.

Protect Native Elders is a diverse team of indigenous community members, activists, healthcare professionals and other like-minded individuals spread across the United States. We are a Native founded organization and use native principles and values to do our work. This is a 100% volunteer grassroots which uses 100% of funds (minus expenses such as processing fees, shipping and fuel) to provide rapid relief supplies to Indigenous communities, families, medical staff and other front-line workers. www.protectnativeelders.org

Atossa Soltani the founder and board president of Amazon Watch. She is currently a senior strategist for the Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative, working to protect one of the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth.

Jyoti (Jeneane Prevatt, Ph.D.) is an internationally renowned spiritual teacher. She has cultivated projects that demonstrate ways of life that honor the Earth and all Peoples. As one of the founders and now holding a Grandmother Seat, and in her active role for so many years as the Spiritual Director of the Center for Sacred Studies

Haru Kuntanawa (shown with wife Hayra) is one of the main leaders of the Kuntanawa Nation and is responsible for the revitalization of his culture's reemergence and for his people. The Kuntanawa People are 1 of the 13 tribes of the Pano linguistic trunk that live in the State of Acre in the Brazilian Amazon. In 1911 the Kuntanawa Tribe suffered a genocide where only 5 members of the Tribe were captured, being that only 2 survived and today they are reconstructing their history. Today the population has reached approximately 500 people mixed of Indigenous, European and African decente due to slavery.

"In our region we have no markets or economy, and the pandemic has severely restricted our Tribes access to food and supplies from the nearest city via an 8 hour boat ride. This year our river measured its lowest recorded level coupled with a 55% increase in deforestation compared to this time last year, making this coming period from July-December dangerously dry for our communities in the rivers for food, and the springs for water. With these climatic factors and the COVID-19 pandemic, our people are being affected by the dramatic increase in invasions of our territories, also due to the lack of food of the neighboring communities living around the Kuntanawa People, in turn resorting to hunting, fishing and land clearing for crops and cattle raising." Learn more here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/kuntanawa-sustainable-food-security-campaign

"As women we have an obligation to remind everyone that it is imperative that we have this closeness relationship with nature, not allowing ourselves to go a moment without realizing that we are part of the sacred elements." ~ Grandmother Flordemayo

"The most beautiful gift for the Earth is your thoughts." ~ Sylvie Decaillet

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“Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it."~ Bruce Lipton

This series is a place for indigenous people to share their wisdom, their cultural heritage, their beliefs, and the challenges that they face. It is also for groups who work to help indigenous people to bring a voice to their needs and offer ways that you can get involved.

The purpose of the series is to open our hearts and minds to cultures who have treasured our planet and could share with us insights that we can use to become more connected with nature and each other. We hope that you will be inspired, informed and intrigued.

We hope you can join us for the beauty and wisdom that will come from these interviews.

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For 2020, our Indigenous Wisdom for the Earth series will move to a recorded call release. On occasion we may still offer a live call.

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Please explore our library of previous calls below. They include the call itself, a transcript and a blog excerpt.

Photo by Mar Nunez

Background photo of trees on water by Clare Dubois, CEO and Founder of TreeSisters

Indigenous Wisdom for the Earth

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In Reciprocity with the Earth with Sylvie Decaillet

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